James

James Mead is an IT Professional with more than fourteen years experience of working in large multi-national blue-chip organisations including Coca-Cola, Avis and Royal Caribbean.

James is a qualified PRINCE2 project manager and also a full member of the APM. With his experience of running multinational projects up to $5million he manages to keep complex projects on schedule and in budget.

James’s experience includes projects spanning different continents and coordinating teams of business and IT people in different time-zones with different objectives however for the last two years he has been focusing on a number of large scale infrastructure projects within central London coordinating multi discipline teams and ground breaking new technologies.

Prior to this he was working as a consultant for a large travel operator in the cruise industry working to develop IT Strategies with newly acquired business units under a directive to integrate them into the larger multinational group where efficiencies could be found. As part of this he has worked alongside key senior executives and board members in order to fully understand the business objectives and growth plans. This combined with full analysis of existing legacy systems has allowed him to commission and implement various projects that both rationalise and improve the systems resulting in cost savings and efficiencies within the business units.

alive IT Consultancy Ltd is managed by James Mead, an IT professional with more than twelve years’ experience of working in large multi-national blue-chip organisations including Coca-Cola, Avis and Royal Caribbean.

With a background in IT Project Management and previously IT Training and Sales, James has a good breadth of experience across many different channels allowing him to be able to communicate at any level required within your business structure. Prior to running alive IT Consultancy James was Head of an International IT team supporting corporate offices around the globe.

Previous projects have included managing complete office moves deployment of system wide upgrades and new applications, and restructuring IT operations to provide efficient and comprehensive reports and analysis.